Digital Library Cards

[Pat Rapp]

We have a growing number of patrons who use their phone instead of their card. You don't need a photo of your card. Just download a free app like CardStar or Keyring - available for Droid and iPhone.

The catch is that we had to get barcode scanners that would be able to read the barcode displayed on the screen. Because the screens are glass, our old scanners could not read them. The new scanners are pricier, but it's nice to be able to have the option of scanning a library card or a phone.

From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Wiggins
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 1:18 AM
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Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Digital Library Cards

Why have library cards at all?  Why not just use the driver license as the library card?

At least in my state, Michigan, you can, and likely have gotten, a so-called State-ID as your alternative identification.

/rich

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Patricia Anderson <pfa at umich.edu<mailto:pfa at umich.edu>> wrote:
Looks like that's not a new idea, although it still seems to be fairly rare.

Kevin Kelly talked about them in 2006:
<http://kk.org/cooltools/archives/1285>

Ed Vielmetti, here in Ann Arbor, picked up on the idea and brought it to the attention of people here. We have part of the idea implemented in our campus library, but not the app part.

<http://vielmetti.typepad.com/superpatron/2006/06/cool_tool_digit.html>

The closest thing I found to what you describe is this, using the CardStar app.

<http://www.jericholibrary.org/digitalcard/index.pdf>

Interesting!

 - Patricia A.

<http://www.jericholibrary.org/digitalcard/index.pdf>





On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Thomas Edelblute <TEdelblute at anaheim.net<mailto:TEdelblute at anaheim.net>> wrote:
At the Library Board Meeting one of our members suggested we look into digital library cards, instead of having an actual card, patrons if they choose could have something on their phone.


Thomas Edelblute
Public Access Systems Coordinator
Anaheim Public Library

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